Posted on 04/25/2006 6:16:28 AM PDT by Esther Ruth
Posted on Mon, Apr. 24,
Bill would prohibit mandatory microchip implants
RYAN J. FOLEY
MADISON, Wis. - Former Gov. Tommy Thompson was one of the first high-profile supporters of tiny microchips implanted in people's arms that would allow doctors to access medical information.
Now the state he used to lead is poised to become the first to ban governments and private businesses from forcing such implants on employees, privacy advocates say.
A proposal moving through the state Legislature would prohibit anyone from requiring people to have the tiny chips embedded in them or doing so without their knowledge. Violators would face fines of up to $10,000.
The plan authored by Rep. Marlin Schneider, D-Wisconsin Rapids, won approval in the Assembly last month. The state Senate on Tuesday is scheduled to consider the measure, which would allow for the implants if the person gives consent.
Gov. Jim Doyle would sign the bill.
Schneider aides say the legislator wants the law in place before companies and governments could use them to keep track of their employees.
"I don't think most people had thought about this as an issue, but it's scary. It's reality now," said Michael Schoenfield, an aide to Schneider. "Companies can or will be ordering their employees to have chips implanted. We want to stop that before it begins."
VeriChip Corp. of Delray Beach, Fla., is the only company with federal approval to implant such chips in people. The company so far has implanted 2,500 people worldwide with chips the size of a grain of rice under the skin of their upper arms, said spokesman John O. Procter.
Thompson endorsed this application last year as a way to give hospitals easy access to patients' medical records when he joined VeriChip's board of directors and vowed to "get chipped" himself.
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Logan's Run....we ain't...
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Wisconsin would be the first state to ban mandatory implants, said Katherine Albrecht, a New Hampshire privacy advocate and co-author of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID."
Albrecht said she recently handed Thompson a copy of her book when he was in New Hampshire giving a speech.
I see a very bad potential for this. On so many levels.
I suppose if many states start requiring them people can always move up to WI.
aww man! I want a micro chip! :)
We already have SS numbers. That should be enough.
Now if we can just keep the gov't from making them mandatory in animals we will still have some semblance of freedoms.
That's funny. I would have thought the Constitution and Bill of Rights had taken care of that already...
Bureaucracies and organizations don't seem to have to follow the Constitution. Humane Society has been doing this for several years w/o owner's permission under the guise 'if you care about your pet'. Then it grew into a good idea for alzheimer's victims and escalated into 'its for the chiiiiiiilllldreeeeennnnnn.
Isn't there something about this in Revelation?
My favorite part of all this is that Thompson (the guy who wants us all chipped) still isn't chipped himself. That alone should be a clue that there's something not quite right about the whole thing (as if we needed another one).
"Isn't there something about this in Revelation?"
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All too frightening isn't?
I guess if this comes to pass I will have to be prepared to forfeit everything. I already know I will never accept having a "mark" put on or in me.
I was thinking that too . . .
Credit card companies speak happily and with anticipated relief re the chip in the hand as if this is all a quite done deal and will all be in place in just a few years to relieve us of all the complications that we suffer.
"Hey, but how about the lack of noise regarding this in the land of the brave, home of the free."
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That speaks volumes about how serious we are about our Christianity. Look how far we have fallen in two generations. We kill babies before they are born. We have all kinds of relations outside of marriage. We are now "normalizing" homosexual behavior and talking about "gay marriage". We worship at the altar of "TOLERANCE".
Getting chipped...it's for the "common good". (More like the "communist good".)
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